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🗓️ 26 October 2016
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0:42.1 | Washington State is the country's largest producer of cherries and blueberries. |
0:46.6 | The state's wine industry is second only to California's in value. |
0:50.3 | But one non-native nuisance bird is wreaking havoc. |
0:58.1 | The European starling was brought to North America more than a century ago by unwitting naturalists who wanted to introduce all the birds mentioned in Shakespeare's plays. |
1:03.5 | Today, the starlings do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of damage to Washington's crops, |
1:09.3 | but one man has taken it upon himself to get rid of those birds |
1:12.9 | without killing them. |
1:14.3 | We're not Terminators, where our job description would be more like security guards. |
1:19.8 | Vahe Averdian, Raptor Wrangler. |
1:22.6 | It's barely 6 a.m., but he's been out in a field of cherry trees in Yakima Valley since much earlier. |
1:29.4 | He's working with a Peregrine falcon. |
1:31.7 | I like this pretty close. |
1:32.7 | Hop, hop, hop. |
1:33.4 | There you go. |
1:35.1 | And as long as the falcon flies over these fields, fruit-loving birds like robins, finches, and starlings will not. |
1:41.9 | Fourth generation fruit grower Mark Roy estimates Allaverdian's |
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